I thought "airing dirty laundry" wasn't a literal thing

Steamed hams???

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

These are the same people who when asked reasonable questions at press conferences respond with "your mom." They know their cult loves it.

let’s not pretend to be surprised at the lack of Epstein files in the Epstein files

The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted. It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.

@pawlina.bsky.social very glad to discover you and your podcast, which I intend to dig into as soon as I have some time! Thanks for the pointer to the Victor Malarek interview, I will start there. Season’s greetings to you!

Not to be rude to the NYT or anything, but maybe now's a good time for them to address Jeffrey Epstein's claim that he was good buddies with NYT publisher Punch Sulzberger in the 1970s? Epstein is known to exaggerate and lie; it might not be true. But it's about time NYT issued a statement. 10/

ah, more props to BuzzFeed: they did figure out Epstein was at the 2011 dinner after his conviction, plus at least 3 dinners beforehand. They even reported that Brooks was there! So six years ago, NYT should have known Brooks was socializing with Epstein. For shame. (h/t @dreadfulpenny.bsky.social)

Put the Christ back in Christmas except for stuff that Christ would say we are canonically/biblically evil for doing

What is the matter with him? WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? He blocks LIFE SAVING CARE because the bill isn't perfect??? That's not a moral or politically correct act. Nothing makes that OK. Nothing.

NEW: A bill restoring money for pediatric cancer therapies was defeated in the Senate. My colleague @samsteindc.bsky.social — who has covered this wrenching story ever since the funding was first removed at Elon Musk's behest last year — reports on why Bernie Sanders helped defeat the bill.

I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

Sigh. What ultra fucking stupid thing has pedo grampa done now?

ICE unlawfully grabbed our client Rümeysa Öztürk off the street and sent her to a for-profit detention center in Louisiana — all for an op-ed she co-authored in her student paper. What happened to Rümeysa is part of a broader crackdown on the First Amendment and immigrants' rights.

this is, of course, exactly what republicans have always intended for vouchers to do: defund public education to facilitate the creation of a private system of segregation academies

Does anyone know how I can donate to karma?

I agree. No one who supports Trump should be able to say "oh, I didn't see/hear about that post about Reiner."

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Anyone who says anything the least uncomplimentary about Rob Reiner is my enemy. I am trying not to exacerbate my pain by avoiding further news about the foul murders yesterday, but I am aware that the orange mobster has once again said something unforgivable. I will never forgive any of them.

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Yesterday, a new sculpture of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), musicologist, poet, novelist, critic & editor was unveiled in Dorchester. Sculptor: Denise Dutton. Images Graham Hunt Photography. www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2569691...

Ugh, no more. Unplugging and trying to see if I can find something pleasant to think about.

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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

GROK LIES AGAIN, because Elon programmed it to lie. It’s just a proven fact.

Bluesky has also become the preferred social media platform for much of the scientific and medical communities. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

(reading Der Stürmer) "You know what this paper needs? Doonesbury. For balance."

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

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“As the deadly attack unfolded at Brown University, leaving students hiding under desks and reeling as gunshots rang out, the scene was eerily familiar for at least two students. Years earlier, Mia Tretta, 21, and Zoe Weissman, 20, had both survived school shootings.”

This is who we are, thanks to the National Rifle Association’s unceasing efforts for decades.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

I feel like this is the nightmare we all dread in the US — an active shooter in your community. Brown University is still in shelter in place 3 hours in, with 2 confirmed deaths, 8 in critical condition, and no shooter(s) in custody. One of my students had to run from the scene. Horrified.

Just watched an interview with a young woman that fled the shooting rampage at Brown University today. She was traumatized. She was also a student at the Mass Shooting that occurred at Marjorie Stoneman High in Florida back in 2018. That killed 17 people, and injured more.

There’s an urgent need for blood in the aftermath of the Brown University shooting If you can give, please do If you can’t, please spread the word Its terrifying to think how bad this shooting might be if they need an urgent call for blood, but the more people donating the more lives we can save

Men who think this way are emotionally unequipped to be in a workplace.

The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you

This is a huge part of why things suck so much now.

I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting. I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

“Since he was sworn back into office nearly a year ago, Donald Trump and several administration officials have already informally discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning an array of Trump advisers, policymakers, and others…

I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/

Then again, the election and REelection of Trump has made me more ashamed of my country than I ever thought possible, and I remember My Lai and the CIA overthrowing an elected government in Chile.

I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on

Remember back when the SCOTUS was howling about overstep by President Biden at every turn?

I swear nothing fills me with more existential dread these days than when the Supreme Court is hearing arguments